by Megan McIntyre | Jan 18, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
Penguins Love Their ABC’s, by Sarah Aspinall, is an enjoyable ABC book, featuring six adorable penguins who go in search of the alphabet hidden in the snow, using pictures that start with the letter they are looking for. The colorful illustrations are not too...
by Megan McIntyre | Jan 11, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
This book uses inventive story weaving in classic fairy tales (and an unexpected character, Judy, who resembles Edna from The Incredibles by the way) into a new tale of a boy who loves to cook. In reading this book with my toddler, I realized that he did not get most...
by L Ruby Hannigan | Dec 11, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Children's
All Barbie lovers out there will learn about Barbie’s famous creator in this short story! Ruth Handler was the creative and artistic inventor of the Barbie doll. Her motive for this invention was her young daughter, Barbara, who had outgrown her baby dolls and...
by Megan McIntyre | Dec 11, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's, Comics & Graphic Novels
Aimed at a seven to ten-year old audience, author Candace Fleming’s own three words, “history meets hijinks,” sum up this story quite well. Ben Franklin and his stinky feet (apparently) travel through time to modern day Rolling Hills, Illinois, which, according...
by Megan McIntyre | Dec 1, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
Like other Pig the Pug books, Pig the Elf is full of this larger-than-life dog, both in attitude and life lessons. The big lesson in this book is: do no bite Santa’s rear. Just kidding, while that is a key part of the story, Pig upon the final, albeit sill...
by Megan McIntyre | Nov 20, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
Fantastic! The first time reading through the book, my two-and-a-half-year-old picked right up on the idea of placing random items into the story. We gathered a few items from around the house (a dinosaur, pig, ambulance, and boat) and created a funny story that was...